Category: Analytics

Mountain View, Calif.-based electronic health record (EHR) application developer, drchrono is becoming the first EHR vendor to integrate its application into the wearable technology. This, drchrono claims, will create the first wearable EHR. It’s a busy week for Google Glass-led collaborations. First, UCLA announced this week that physicians at the university’s medical center will use…

What started as a vision to implement health IT across its organization ended in Stage 7 recognition for 18 MetroHealth facilities. The health system’s CMIO explains the journey. In 1999, when the Cleveland, Ohio-based MetroHealth system went live on its electronic health record (EHR) with its first ambulatory site, the underlying mission of the organization…

The New York e-Health Collaborative (NYeC), which is coordinating development of New York’s electronic health records network , known as the Statewide Health Information Network of New York (the SHIN-NY), says it has achieved full accreditation with the Direct Trusted Agent Accreditation Program (DTAAP) from DirectTrust.org and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC). Direct…

Kareo Inc., the leading cloud-based medical office software and services provider for small medical practices, today announced the launch of a new cooperative relationship with Falcon EHR, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc.. …read more    

Discussions about how to amend a lynchpin of federal health IT policymaking – ONC’s Certification Program – continue in earnest. With a backdrop of low numbers of MU attestations, patient safety concerns and ongoing interoperability challenges, this may prove to be a timely opportunity to reassess how health IT products are certified. EHR Certification Shortcomings…

The lack of involvement from end-users is one of the chief reasons there was a significantly botched implementation of the electronic medical record (EMR) system at Athens (Ga.) Regional Health Systems, according to a new report in the Athens Banner-Herald. The lack of involvement from end-users is one of the chief reasons there was a…

Hospital IT executives increasingly turn to the cloud to lower maintenance costs while trying to meet their growing technology needs, according to a new survey published today by HIMSS Analytics. read more …read more    

Aaron Sorensen is director of informatics at Temple University School of Medicine of Philadelphia, PA. Tell me about your job. I’m at Temple University at the School of Medicine with an affiliated health system. Our new leadership is keen on creating a robust infrastructure to support clinical research. I’m heading up the informatics aspects of…

Anti-aircraft artillery and abdominal aortic aneurysms have a couple of things in common. First, they are both known as ‘Triple A’ (AAA). Second, they both blow up. Killing time before the recent eHealth Summit at CMS in Baltimore, Larry Garber, an internist at Worcester, Massachusetts-based Reliant Medical Group, who was speaking at the event, mentioned…

Cumberland Consulting Group, a national healthcare technology implementation and project management firm, today announced that it has acquired the assets of Seattle-based Cipe Consulting Group, LLC, a growing healthcare technology consulting firm specializing in electronic health records and revenue cycle system implementation and support, including workflow and business analytics. …read more